"They left the corpses behind for the raven, never was there greater slaughter in this island."
from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
It was long after Chmelnizkij wrote The Babblers
that a lone Kursi stood being photographed
on a windy Winter's day, and just a short time
before the moment when Antonin Artaud
would say (upon meeting Adolf Hitler in a bar in Berlin):
Les Parisiens ont besoin de gaz.
"Later, I'll write a curse on France in 1939,
and beckon this man to invade.." thought
Artaud.
thought ~ our toe:
Two madmen go into a bar,
one is Napoleon, the other, the Tsar,
Napoleon:
Did you know Don Rickles (The Lithuanian)
served during World War II
on the USS Cyrene as a first class seaman?
the Tsar:
Do you think he knew Aristippus?
The fool forgets the semen in ice...
Kursi
Spit
Napoleon:
How about that battle at Vilnius?
the Tsar:
How about that? [He smiles..]
Napoleon:
Did you know Jean-Paul Marat
published an essay on curing
a friend of the gleets?
the Tsar: The Prussian?
Kursi
Spit
Napoleon:
It was on an icy morning, 18 Frimaire XXI,
outside Vilnius's deep vaulted gate that Victor Dupuy~
the Tsar:
The P? Dupe oui?
Kursi
Spit
Naked men
standing in the snow.
They had all once been semen,
and now, they were~
cold.
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| our toe ~ thought... |
